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121 South Korean schools have no newcomers SEOUL, June 18 (UPI) -- Data indicate 121 of 6,203 elementary schools in South Korea did not recruit any new students this year amid the country's low birthrate.
June 18, 2013 - UPI

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Jim Rogers in International Herald Tribune If the current birthrate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese,Jim Rogers, who co-founded the Quantum fund with George Soros in 1970, said last month. "Who will pay the enormous debt?"

Diane Francis in Lifesite A planetary law, such as China's one-child policy, is the only way to reverse the disastrous global birthrate currently of one million births every four days,writes Francis.

Yuriko Koike in Newsweek The ongoing issues of the lower birthrate and the aging society have been going with such speed that the national design of how to respond to that has not caught up yet,said Yuriko Koike, a television reporter turned politician (Japan's first...